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On 8/18/2018 at 2:40 PM, MidTennFootball said:

Rockvale is supposed to pull from Riverdale, Blackman, and Eagleville. So Oakland could possibly have a near stranglehold on this region going forward

When Siegel opened the zones shifted and Oakland picked up a talent rich area of town from Riverdale.  At the time the discussion was whether that would shift the balance of power to Oakland.  The opening of Rockvale could shift that area of town back to Riverdale.  I'm sure the fight over zoning boundaries is pretyy intense right now.

At the end of the day all the schools will still have 1800+ students.

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On 8/18/2018 at 5:20 PM, Lost Old Dad said:

Some of us are still here.  I have not commented because I did not see the game.  I am not going in any part of Nashville unless I can take care of my personal protection.  I am too old and weak for that fighting 'stuff' anymore.  What I would have to use is the old special forces fighting stuff and that injures PERMANENTLY!

Unless I can see and offer some POSITIVE suggestions, I will remain quiet.  Or like the old days, "Put up or shut up!".

This is a rebuilding year for R'dale after we lost 22 Seniors last year.  Think though of the future with us playing mostly sophmores.  RA you have destroyed a once proud machine.  I hope you are happy skippy!

Coach K, you are building from the ground up.  Weight room work HARD even now!  After that ask about the 'snake' from Coach Fields, and run them HARD!  You will not be popular, but you will wind up with a machine again.

 

LOD, you've become a very mellow person.  I retired and moved to Florida  but did catch a couple games last year while in town. 

Losing to E. Nashville and getting beat 35-0 in one half at the jamboree is just pretty terrible.  

A healthy program should lose 20-25 seniors every year.  MidtENN, how many seniors did Oakland lose last year?

The thing that stood out in the games I watched last year (WC,CC, Blackman) was how weak the players were.  They were in position, got to the right spot, but just too weak to make the tackle. I suspect the lack of emphasis on conditioning is showing it's full effect right now.  Hopefully I'm wrong and Coach K gets this thing turned around.

I remember 2003 when CGR had a sophomore dominated team that got it all turned around by November.

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1 hour ago, TDCman said:

When Siegel opened the zones shifted and Oakland picked up a talent rich area of town from Riverdale.  At the time the discussion was whether that would shift the balance of power to Oakland.  The opening of Rockvale could shift that area of town back to Riverdale.  I'm sure the fight over zoning boundaries is pretyy intense right now.

At the end of the day all the schools will still have 1800+ students.

I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that I know the slightest thing about the zoning issue. I do know this: The new superintendent is a former principal at OHS who just promoted one of his vice principals to replace him, who in turned hired the superintendent's son-in-law to fill his spot. Oakland also has 2 school board members with heavy ties to Oakland. I'd be surprised if the rezoning went badly enough to seriously hurt them, in my opinion.

However, if it did, Oakland has the picture perfect model of a feeder system now. From the bottom to the top, these kids are playing in the same system, and each level is pretty successful right now. I do t think Oakland drops off much as long as either Creasy or Jackson (DC) remains there

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1 hour ago, TDCman said:

 

LOD, you've become a very mellow person.  I retired and moved to Florida  but did catch a couple games last year while in town. 

Losing to E. Nashville and getting beat 35-0 in one half at the jamboree is just pretty terrible.  

A healthy program should lose 20-25 seniors every year.  MidtENN, how many seniors did Oakland lose last year?

The thing that stood out in the games I watched last year (WC,CC, Blackman) was how weak the players were.  They were in position, got to the right spot, but just too weak to make the tackle. I suspect the lack of emphasis on conditioning is showing it's full effect right now.  Hopefully I'm wrong and Coach K gets this thing turned around.

I remember 2003 when CGR had a sophomore dominated team that got it all turned around by November.

If I had to guess, around 15, but I'm not really sure. 2019 will be interesting because there is still a bunch of talent but they are going to be replacing alot of college talent, but they did that in 2017 and didn't miss a beat, so we shall see

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